On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 11:30:04 PM ron minnich wrote: > This note is motivated by mr.nuke.me's recent CLs with a short-form GPL > notice in them. I like that notice but I think it needs a tweak, then we > can just use it everywhere. > Which was motivated by some of your gerrit comments.
> "This file is part of Coreboot Project. It is subject to the license terms > in the LICENSE file found in the top-level directory of this distribution > and at http://www.coreboot.org/license.html. No part of the Coreboot > Project, including this file, may be copied, modified, propagated, or > distributed except according to the terms contained in the LICENSE file." > > OK, I admit, I painted it because I'm sure the shed will end up with a > different color :-) > Yes, yes, no html formatting in emails etc. etc. but sometimes rules must > be broken. > I had to turn on html in Kmail to see the paint. Now that I can see the paint... 1. One has to consider that every line this text takes is one less line of code that is visible when opening a file. So, is that the absolute minimum we can get to. I've seen a few projects which use a license identifier tag, along with an explanation in the README as to what that tag means and how to interpret it. 2. There's no longer a place to license under GPLv2 or GPLv2+. It's always a nice touch, and a fun step, to decide whether a certain file you wrote should go under v2 or v2+. 3. Re-licensing everything under v2 will piss a lot of people who like the "+". Some of those v2+ contributions are heavily copied from other v2+ projects (read: allwinner from uboot), and I'm not sure that you can simply strip the "+" from the license of such files, as you're potentially misrepresenting the intent of the author(s). > I regret that it contains a URL, but in these dark times, one must make > concessions. > Old text contained both a URL and address. I think this is a step forward. > So, does this work or do people have objections? > I need to keep my reputation as the most annoying guy. Of course I have objections :p. Alex -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
